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April 19, 1985 *-Vol. 16, No. 16 750 Outside of D.C./Baltimore Areas
AIDS patien
arrested;
charges
mistreatment
THE GAY WEEKLY OF THE NATION'S CAPITAL
110 A :dm As. Al\ .411111i IOW Adak
V AI V PPM lb.,"41 MI II MI LW 1111 N lini11M11 Mk 1 iMR
ANL' MI II I ME It 11111, Ell 111.1 .41 I el t INN
by Lou Chilbaro Jr.
Officials with the D.C. Department of
Corrections and the United States Marshal
Service' this week snicl. they are examining
their procedures for handling prisoners who
have AIDS after Whitman-Walker Clinic
Administrator Jim Graham charged that
courthouse marshals and employees of the
D.C. Jail "panicked" when a 21-year-old
Gay man with AIDS was taken to the jail
and later arraigned at Superior Court.
The man with AIDS, who requested that
his name be withheld, was taken into
custody by U.S. Capitol Police at 1 a.m. on
April 6, the Saturday before Easter. He had
been stopped in his car for a traffic violation,
and it was discovered he hat an outstanding
arrest-warrant for jumping bail two years
earlier in New -Jersey.- The warrant
stemmed from an auto iheft charge.
The man told the Blade he informed
Capital Police officers he hart AIDS when
he was taken to a substation for processing.
This revelation set off an immediate chain of
events that led to a harrowing two-day
experience, the man said.
According -to court records and
interviews with D.C. Corrections
Department officials, the man was taken to
and then turned away from a D.C. Police
Department cell block, the P.C. Jail's main
- cell block, D.C. General Hospital's prison
ward and the main unit at the D.C. Jail's.
infirmary. Officials at.each of these places;
said the man with AIDS, did not want to
rreptan AIDS patient. Finally, according -
to D.C. Jail Administrator William Long,
the man was accfpted in the isolation
section of the D.C. Jail infirmary.
The man's clothes were destroyed in the
incinerator at D.C. General Hospital at the
request of Maj. Iv an Anderson, a duty
operational _commander at D.C. Jail.
According to Long, Anderson feared they
were "contaminated?' The man's wallet,
which -contained all of his personal
identification items such as his driver's
lic,enst-, had not been returned to him as of
yesterday, and Long said no one knows
what happened to them.
Once placed in the isolation section of the
D.C. Jail infirmary, the man was denied
access to a telephone to obtain assistance,
denied access to his prescription medication
needed to treat an AIDS-related herpes
Continued „an page _5
Richmond hearing set 6
'Panic" defense rejected __ 6
Woman Sound celebrates 9
Disputes over HMV test ii
BoAulte Gilberfs.latest. 19
Latest reports garner little optimism
Prevention seen as only hope for AIDS
by Mark Scott
ATLANTA, GA—The International
Conference on AIDS, which ended
Wednesday after three solid days of reports
and presentations, was the biggest gathering
of its kind since the AIDS epidemic was
recognized in 1981. An estimated two
thousand health professionals representing
30 countries attended. Top U.S. health
officialsfrom Health and Human Services
Secretary Margaret Heckler on down—
were there, as were an estimated 400
Lesbian and Gay activists and health
professionals.
But behind the impressive numbers, said
many conference participants, lay a handful
of grim facts: the number of AIDS cases,
which is projected to reach 10,000 within
two weeks, will continue its steep rise—
perhaps strildng 10,000 more within the
next year. And there is neither a. vaccine nor
a cure in sight.
Among the findings presented during the
conference, co-sponsored by- the World
Health Organization and HHS, were these:
to Individuals infected with Frnm-a
the virus believed to cause AIDS, may carry
it for the rest of their lives. Still unknown is
whether infected individuals are constantly
capable of transmitting HTLV-III to others,
or whether—like herpes—the virus can
only be transmitted intermittently.
• Although Heckler predicted a year ago
Nine locally based AIDS service organizations exhibited their safe sex -campaigns at the
Atlanta AIDS conference. Pictured here is the "L.A. Cares" program-of the Los Angeles
Gay and Lesbian Community Center. Closer to home, the D.C. Whitman-Walker Clinic
and Baltimore HERO posted exhibits.
that an AIDS vaccine could be ready in two
years, researchers are now saying it could
take five years or more—if a vaccine can be
developed at all. Several researchers
presented papers indicating that HTLV-III
has a number of properties which set it apart
from other retroviruses and could set back
vaccine development.
* Treatments with different drugs
Continued on page 10
Advice to couples: make illegal
by Lisa M. Keen
NEW YORK, NY—What areyou going
to do if your "forever lover" decides to go
"find" him or herself in the car you bought
together?
When your live-in lover dies, can you
prevent his or her pareqts from coming into
your apartment, packing up everything the
two of you bought together, and carting it
off?_ -
If you decide to have a baby, are there
any legal perils in choosing who will donate
semen or act as the surrogate mother?
These are just a few of the myriad of
questions raised Saturday in an all-day
seminar, "Securing Our Relationships/
Creating our Families," sponsored by the
Lambda Legal Defense and Education
Fund, a national Gay litigation group.
While the answers to the questions are
easy to find for legally married heterosexual
couples, the questions are just beginning to
be asked for Gay couples, said many of the
seminar speakers Saturday, and the answers
depend a great deal on how Gays use the
legal system now.
"If we're going to be protected by the law,
we're going to have to find out how to do it
ourselves," said Joe -Tom Fasley, former
president of D.C.'s Gertrude Stein
— . . aiitifitied-cin• page 5'
Former Gertrude Stein Democratic Club President Joe Tom Easley opens New York
sestina( ari,Gay fanalis for Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund.

April 19, 1985 *-Vol. 16, No. 16 750 Outside of D.C./Baltimore Areas
AIDS patien
arrested;
charges
mistreatment
THE GAY WEEKLY OF THE NATION'S CAPITAL
110 A :dm As. Al\ .411111i IOW Adak
V AI V PPM lb.,"41 MI II MI LW 1111 N lini11M11 Mk 1 iMR
ANL' MI II I ME It 11111, Ell 111.1 .41 I el t INN
by Lou Chilbaro Jr.
Officials with the D.C. Department of
Corrections and the United States Marshal
Service' this week snicl. they are examining
their procedures for handling prisoners who
have AIDS after Whitman-Walker Clinic
Administrator Jim Graham charged that
courthouse marshals and employees of the
D.C. Jail "panicked" when a 21-year-old
Gay man with AIDS was taken to the jail
and later arraigned at Superior Court.
The man with AIDS, who requested that
his name be withheld, was taken into
custody by U.S. Capitol Police at 1 a.m. on
April 6, the Saturday before Easter. He had
been stopped in his car for a traffic violation,
and it was discovered he hat an outstanding
arrest-warrant for jumping bail two years
earlier in New -Jersey.- The warrant
stemmed from an auto iheft charge.
The man told the Blade he informed
Capital Police officers he hart AIDS when
he was taken to a substation for processing.
This revelation set off an immediate chain of
events that led to a harrowing two-day
experience, the man said.
According -to court records and
interviews with D.C. Corrections
Department officials, the man was taken to
and then turned away from a D.C. Police
Department cell block, the P.C. Jail's main
- cell block, D.C. General Hospital's prison
ward and the main unit at the D.C. Jail's.
infirmary. Officials at.each of these places;
said the man with AIDS, did not want to
rreptan AIDS patient. Finally, according -
to D.C. Jail Administrator William Long,
the man was accfpted in the isolation
section of the D.C. Jail infirmary.
The man's clothes were destroyed in the
incinerator at D.C. General Hospital at the
request of Maj. Iv an Anderson, a duty
operational _commander at D.C. Jail.
According to Long, Anderson feared they
were "contaminated?' The man's wallet,
which -contained all of his personal
identification items such as his driver's
lic,enst-, had not been returned to him as of
yesterday, and Long said no one knows
what happened to them.
Once placed in the isolation section of the
D.C. Jail infirmary, the man was denied
access to a telephone to obtain assistance,
denied access to his prescription medication
needed to treat an AIDS-related herpes
Continued „an page _5
Richmond hearing set 6
'Panic" defense rejected __ 6
Woman Sound celebrates 9
Disputes over HMV test ii
BoAulte Gilberfs.latest. 19
Latest reports garner little optimism
Prevention seen as only hope for AIDS
by Mark Scott
ATLANTA, GA—The International
Conference on AIDS, which ended
Wednesday after three solid days of reports
and presentations, was the biggest gathering
of its kind since the AIDS epidemic was
recognized in 1981. An estimated two
thousand health professionals representing
30 countries attended. Top U.S. health
officialsfrom Health and Human Services
Secretary Margaret Heckler on down—
were there, as were an estimated 400
Lesbian and Gay activists and health
professionals.
But behind the impressive numbers, said
many conference participants, lay a handful
of grim facts: the number of AIDS cases,
which is projected to reach 10,000 within
two weeks, will continue its steep rise—
perhaps strildng 10,000 more within the
next year. And there is neither a. vaccine nor
a cure in sight.
Among the findings presented during the
conference, co-sponsored by- the World
Health Organization and HHS, were these:
to Individuals infected with Frnm-a
the virus believed to cause AIDS, may carry
it for the rest of their lives. Still unknown is
whether infected individuals are constantly
capable of transmitting HTLV-III to others,
or whether—like herpes—the virus can
only be transmitted intermittently.
• Although Heckler predicted a year ago
Nine locally based AIDS service organizations exhibited their safe sex -campaigns at the
Atlanta AIDS conference. Pictured here is the "L.A. Cares" program-of the Los Angeles
Gay and Lesbian Community Center. Closer to home, the D.C. Whitman-Walker Clinic
and Baltimore HERO posted exhibits.
that an AIDS vaccine could be ready in two
years, researchers are now saying it could
take five years or more—if a vaccine can be
developed at all. Several researchers
presented papers indicating that HTLV-III
has a number of properties which set it apart
from other retroviruses and could set back
vaccine development.
* Treatments with different drugs
Continued on page 10
Advice to couples: make illegal
by Lisa M. Keen
NEW YORK, NY—What areyou going
to do if your "forever lover" decides to go
"find" him or herself in the car you bought
together?
When your live-in lover dies, can you
prevent his or her pareqts from coming into
your apartment, packing up everything the
two of you bought together, and carting it
off?_ -
If you decide to have a baby, are there
any legal perils in choosing who will donate
semen or act as the surrogate mother?
These are just a few of the myriad of
questions raised Saturday in an all-day
seminar, "Securing Our Relationships/
Creating our Families," sponsored by the
Lambda Legal Defense and Education
Fund, a national Gay litigation group.
While the answers to the questions are
easy to find for legally married heterosexual
couples, the questions are just beginning to
be asked for Gay couples, said many of the
seminar speakers Saturday, and the answers
depend a great deal on how Gays use the
legal system now.
"If we're going to be protected by the law,
we're going to have to find out how to do it
ourselves," said Joe -Tom Fasley, former
president of D.C.'s Gertrude Stein
— . . aiitifitied-cin• page 5'
Former Gertrude Stein Democratic Club President Joe Tom Easley opens New York
sestina( ari,Gay fanalis for Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund.